Author: Lubbeck, William (with David B. Hurt),
Title: AT LENINGRAD'S GATES - The Story of a Soldier with Army Group North.
Description: Casemate, Newbury and Havertown, 2010, paperback, xiv, 258pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, large format (9 x 6 inches approx.), photo pictorial wrappers, drawing on his wartime notes, letters, regimental history and personal memories the author recounts his four years of frontline experiences, a firsthand account of a German soldier who fought throughout World War II. Rising from conscript private to captain of a heavy weapons company on the Eastern Front he was originally drafted at 19 years into the Wehrmacht in August 1939 as a member of the 58th Infantry Division he received his baptism of fire during the 1940 invasion of France. The following spring he served on the left flank of Army Group North in the invasion of Russia and after gruelling marches entered the outskirts of Leningrad, suffering severe hardships the following winter as they fought both Russian counterattacks and the brutal cold. By 1943 he entered officer training when he returned to his company the gradual retreat began, eventually being evacuated across the Baltic to Copenhagen to become a POW and was eventually returned to Germany, fine,
Keywords: war ww2 german army group north
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Title: AT LENINGRAD'S GATES - The Story of a Soldier with Army Group North.
Description: Casemate, Newbury and Havertown, 2010, paperback, xiv, 258pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, large format (9 x 6 inches approx.), photo pictorial wrappers, drawing on his wartime notes, letters, regimental history and personal memories the author recounts his four years of frontline experiences, a firsthand account of a German soldier who fought throughout World War II. Rising from conscript private to captain of a heavy weapons company on the Eastern Front he was originally drafted at 19 years into the Wehrmacht in August 1939 as a member of the 58th Infantry Division he received his baptism of fire during the 1940 invasion of France. The following spring he served on the left flank of Army Group North in the invasion of Russia and after gruelling marches entered the outskirts of Leningrad, suffering severe hardships the following winter as they fought both Russian counterattacks and the brutal cold. By 1943 he entered officer training when he returned to his company the gradual retreat began, eventually being evacuated across the Baltic to Copenhagen to become a POW and was eventually returned to Germany, fine,
Keywords: war ww2 german army group north
Price: GBP 8.50 = appr. US$ 12.14 Seller: A Book for all Reasons
- Book number: 41605
- Book number: 41605
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